The 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 3rd session of the Conference of the
Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place in Bali and was hosted by the
Government of Indonesia. Also sitting were the twenty-seventh sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation
(SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the resumed fourth session of the
Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP).

The Bali Climate Change Conference brought together more than 10,000 participants, including representatives
of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations and
the media.

Governments adopted the Bali Road Map, a set of decisions that represented the various tracks that were seen
as key to reaching a global climate deal.

The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan, which launched a "new, comprehensive process to enable
the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action, now,
up to and beyond 2012", with the aim of reaching an agreed outcome and adopting a decision at COP15 in
Copenhagen. Governments divided the plan into five main categories: shared vision, mitigation, adaptation,
technology and financing. Please click here for the full text of the Bali Action Plan .

Other elements in the Bali Road Map included:

A decision on deforestation and forest management;

A decision on technology for developing countries;

The establishment of the Adaptation Fund Board

The review of the financial mechanism, going beyond the existing Global Environmental Facility.